Feed and water fountain for poultry.



E. H. SGHWARTZBURG.

FEED AND WATER rounmm FOR POULTRY.

APPLIOATIOI IILBD HAB- 3,1913.

Patented Aug. 11, 1914.

UNITED s TEs PATENT, OFFICE.

nDwAnnH. SCHWARTZBURG, or MILWAUKEE, WIsooNsIEnssIGNon T0, NATIONAL ENAMELING AND STAMPING COMPANY, OF BALTIMOBE, MARYLAND, A CORPORA-.

, TIQN OF NEW JERSEY;

FEED AND WATER FOUNTAIN FOR POULTRY.

Patented Aug; 11, 1914.

. Application filed March 3, 1913. Serial No. 751,673.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EnwARn H. S(ni\\'.-\n'rz:nmo, -a citizen of the United States, resii'ling'at Milwaukee, in the county of 'h'lilwaukee'and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvemcnts'in Feed and ater Fountains for Poultry, of whicht-he following is a specification. V 5

This invention relates to an improvement in automatic fountain devices for supplying to poultry either dry granulated food, or water. i e

In Letters Patent of the United States No. 727,597 dated May 12, 1903, a device is shown and described for supplying water for poultry. This patent shows a glass jar inverted as a storage receptacle for water, but is not adapted for supplying dry grain or granulated food.

The object of this invention is to so change the structure shown in the said patent that the improved or changed device may be used for supplying water to poultry as the former device did, and also used for supplying dry grained feed to poultry. The structure comprising the operative parts of the improvement will first be described and then the invention will be pointed out in the claim. I

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is anelevation, the pan being in section. Fig. 2 is avert-ical section of the neck of the jar, the open collar and feet. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan of the open collar. Fig. 4 is a plan of disk used with water. Fig. 5 is another view of the disk showing an alternate form of opening for passage of water.

The device includes a metal pan; a screwneck glass jar such as an ordinary fruit jar;

a removable disk having a hole or a notch, and a ring or screw-threaded collar attached rigidly within the said pan and adapted to rereive the screw-neck of the glass jar. The metal pan, .i, has flaring sides and the inner airfare of its bottom is preferably conveXed or higher at the center, 6. Within the pan is a ring or open collar, C, screw-threaded and supported by feet, (Z, which latter are rigidly attached to the pan bottom. These feet sustain the said open ring or collar below the top edge of the flaring side of the pan but in a position where the lower edge of the ring is above the bottom of the pan,

'Fig. 5.

thus relatively largeopen spaces, 0, are formed below .the open ring and between the feet that support the ring. Thering 0r screw-collar, C, is without holes around its rim; it has an annular flange, f, which projects inwardly around its lower edge, which serves a purpose that will be presently described. The glass ar, (.lr, when in operative position is inverted and its screw neck, h, is inserted into the open collar, C, and connected thereto by the thread. An annular trough, 2', is formed between the ring-collarand flaring sides of the pan.

The parts thus far described are operative as a feeder where the feed is dry and granu lat-ed in form, such as grain.

To serve as a feeder forpoultry the empty jar must first be filled with the grain, or-

dry granulated food of any described character and the mouth of the jar left entirely open; then the pan upside down should be placed on top of the jar and the open collar, C, of the pan connected with the screw-neck it, around the open mouth of the ar. Then the entire device-both the jar and the upside-down panshould have its position reversed and the bottom of the jar be uppermost, whereupon the dry feed in the. inverted jar will. flow down through the open collar onto the convex bottom of the pan and the feed will spread outwardly through the open spaces, 0, and into the annular trough, i. The fowls may readily eat the feed from the trough without producing dirt or waste.

The feeder device just described is not operative as an automatic water-fountain for fowls because the inverted glass ar having its large mouth entirely open, would spill out and waste all, ounearly all, of the water contained in the jar when the reversal movement of both jar and pan should be made. i

To convert the feeder device just described into an automatic water fountain, I provide the disk, having either a hole, 7r, as shown in Fig. 4, or as an alternative construction, having one or more notches, Z, formed at the rim of the disk, as shown in This disk has the size that will lie on and cover the open mouth of the glass jar; the disk must be placed loosely in the open ring or collar, C, and rested on the annular flange, Whenthe jar has been filled with water and stands with its open mouth upward the pan with ring or collar and the said disk therein, these latter at this moment being in an upside-down position, should be placed on top of the jar, and the open collar connected with the'screw-neck, h, of the jar. The disk will then have position between the mouth-edge of the jar and the said annular flange, f, of the open collar.

Then the jar and upside-down pan may be reversed to bring the jar-bottom uppermost, and when making this reverse movement the water contained in the jar will not spill out or. be wasted. i 'When the jar-bottom is uppermost and the disk, j, is in position the water will pass down through the hole, is, or through the notch, Z, which ever is used, and into the pan; the water in the jar will thus pass out until it rises in the pan high T enough to seal the open mouth of the jar;

the water will then cease passing out of the jar, and the supply of Water in the trough, i, will be accessible to the fowls. A leather or rubber ring-Washer, m, should be around the neck, h, of the jar and between the shoulder of the jar and the upper edge of from the'lower edge of the collar; a disk inthe collar at the upper ends of the integrally formed feet said disk having an opening therein, and a jar having a threaded engagement with the collar.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD H. SCHWARTZBURG.

Witnesses:

G. A. POHL,

EMIL H. WINTER. 

